The Tech Helping To Treat Depression – BBC Click

Mike is 42. He works in tech and lives in West Sussex in the UK with his wife and 5 children.

He’s also one of the 264 million people around the world who experience depression.

Over the past year, Mike has swapped traditional therapy for an app and an electricity emitting headset.

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34 Comments

  1. Id rather get actual help….or have the world not be so damn aweful that I need a device to fix me :/ This is a beak future where you get told if your sad…just put this on £499 and stop being sad, need a therapist? Just listen to this app chat bot….There's more to depression than an expensive toy version of actual treatment that 'should' be on the NHS.

  2. You're telling me that the tiny coils and tiny battery in that thing can produce a magnetic field with significant strength? I guess then my brain also gets stimulated by the magnets in my headphones

  3. I have been using this for three weeks, my feelings of suicide have gone but I have no idea if that is due to the flow headset or other factors, I am not really sure if it’s helping. It’s damned expensive and you have to buy new cellulose pads as you can’t reuse them.

  4. Its promising, concerns i have from reading the lower rated trustpilot reviews are about tinnitus not subsiding, headaches and burns… but worst is flows lack of response on longer term tinnitus issues. I have heard that other sets using the same technology are better designed but flow having the NHS contract is getting prominent media coverage… I hope they can address the problems as for those with sensory issues the prospect of tinnitus in addition to depression issues is a serious situation that could endanger a person in distress to harm themselves

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